At such extreme speeds, cars have a nasty tendency to behave like airplanes.
For another, Langley too often showed a nasty tendency to regard combat teams as expendable.
Bullets have a nasty tendency to travel farther than you want them to.
He didn't like them, didn't like the nasty tendency they had to burn when hit by even one ship-killer.
It also meant that deep-space battles had a nasty tendency to end in tactical draws, however important they might be strategically.
Life had a nasty tendency to make exotic opportunities few and far between.
"If people feel that in their heart, it's the only way we're going to overcome our nasty tendency to bop each other over the head."
The Social impact of that will become immeasurable, with the nasty tendency of people to claim that everyone is on the take.
They had a nasty tendency to blow things up, but never intentionally.
But even given nasty tendencies it takes a bad environment-a rotten family to bring it out.